Amanda will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in July, 2015. Prio to this she was a Lawrence Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a Visiting Scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute working in Franziska Michor's lab. In general, her work focuses on the design of large-scale parallel applications targeting biomedical and biophysical questions.  Her primary research goal is to develop patient-specific models that can provide insight into the localization and progression of human disease.

She completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University with a secondary field in Computational Science. Her advisors were Efthimios Kaxiras and Hanspeter Pfister. She received her Bachelor's Degree in both Computer Science and Physics from Duke University, and her Master's Degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.  Before graduate school, she worked for three years as a software developer at IBM on the Blue Gene Development Team. Her primary roles were in application development and performance.

Amanda is the recipient of the NIH Early Independence Award, Lawrence Livermore Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship, the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.  Through CSGF, she completed a summer practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011.  While in graduate school, she spent several summers working on wireless network modeling at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.  She was awarded the 2009 Honorable Mention, and the 2010 and 2012 George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Women in Computer Science and selected as a U.S. Delegate for both the 62nd Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics in Lindau, Germany and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

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